15481345Reg. And in good time you gaue it.

15491346Lear. Made you my guardians, my depositaries,

15501347But kept a reseruation to be followed

15511348With such a number, what, must I come to you

15521349With fiue and twenty, Regan, said you so?

15531350Reg. And speak't againe my Lord, no more with me.

15541351Lear. Those wicked creatures yet do seeme well-fauour'd

15551352When others are more wicked, not being the worst,

15561353Stands in some ranke of praise, Ile go with thee,

15571354Thy fifty yet doth double fiue and twenty,

15581355And thou art twice her loue.

15591356Gon. Heare me my Lord;

15601357What need you fiue and twenty, ten, or fiue,

15611358To follow in a house, where twice so many

15621359Haue a command to tend you?

15631360Regan. What needs one?

15641361Lear. O reason not the deed, our basest beggers

15651362Are in the poorest thing superfluous,

15661363Allow not nature more then nature needs,

15671364Mans life's as cheap as beasts; thou art a Lady,

15681365If onely to go warme were gorgious,

15691366Why nature needs not what thou gorgious wearest,

15701367Which scarsely keepes thee warme, but for true need,

15711368You heauens giue me that patience, patience I need,

15721369You see me heere (you Gods) a poore olde fellow,

15731370As full of greefe as age, wretched in both,

15741371If it be you that stirres these daughters hearts

15751372Against their Father, foole me not too much,

15761373To beare it lamely, touch me with noble anger,

15771374O let not womens weapons, water drops

15781375Staine my mans cheekes, no you vnnaturall hags,

15791376I will haue such reuenges on you both,

15801377That all the world shall -------- I will do such things,

15811378What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be

15821379The terrors of the earth; you thinke ile weepe,

15831380No, ile not weepe, I haue full cause of weeping,

15851381But this heart shall breake in a thousand flowes